Why in the World is the Honest Woman Running at the Bottom ?

First of all Im a Trump supporter by force and choice, at the moment. I was never into Bernie. Why is Jill Stein at the bottom ? How is it possible
that we have 2 women running, one is a saint by comparison and the other is the most corrupt person to ever even think about running for president.
Jill is probably the most honest and best person running out of all the people. Im sure she has her negatives but I could never see her being shady.
All of my friends are environmentalists and they have never heard of her. Damn the media is a powerful God. Complete idiocracy.

Yes, I know indies don't win, yes I know she is at 1%, yes I think Gary is honest as well and Ill buy his edibles and yes I know for a fact that
Hillary is unprecedented in her corruption and now thuggery and voter fraud. Complete idiocracy and hypocrisy..

All it takes is 5% of the popular vote and the Green Party gets a major boost. They'll be allowed to participate in future presidential debates and
get a LOT more funding.

It's a shame most of the voting population isn't aware of this and most likely don't care.

My votes with Stein.

As nice as that sounds, you know as well as I do, none of that matters. Look at how the media controlled Ron Paul in the past and how they pushed
Bernie out. Sadly, the majority is just to f'ing stupid to know how to think unless they are told by the great protector. (the idiot box)

All it takes is 5% of the popular vote and the Green Party gets a major boost. They'll be allowed to participate in future presidential debates and
get a LOT more funding.

It's a shame most of the voting population isn't aware of this and most likely don't care.

My votes with Stein.

As nice as that sounds, you know as well as I do, none of that matters. Look at how the media controlled Ron Paul in the past and how they pushed
Bernie out. Sadly, the majority is just to f'ing stupid to know how to think unless they are told by the great protector. (the idiot box)

You're right, but the silver lining here is that it's more difficult for the establishment to buy out 3 major candidates. The elites would be spread
thinner and probably run into some big conflicts of interest.

IMO, because networking, relationships, money and "campaign machinery," are things she is not as strong in, and frankly, I personally don't see her as
worldly-wise enough or strong enough in terms of understanding our military and international relationships. She seems like a committed activist
though she also has some unpopular opinions that are too far to the left to get mainstream voters to pay attention.

How is she at the bottom? Simple, she has even less of a grasp of economics, monetary, and foreign policy than the average person. While people like
what she's saying, she has yet to articulate how to accomplish any of it. Hillary on the other hand is very realistic about what can and can't be
accomplished.

originally posted by: beeeyotch
First of all Im a Trump supporter by force and choice, at the moment. I was never into Bernie. Why is Jill Stein at the bottom ? How is it possible
that we have 2 women running, one is a saint by comparison and the other is the most corrupt person to ever even think about running for president.
Jill is probably the most honest and best person running out of all the people. Im sure she has her negatives but I could never see her being shady.
All of my friends are environmentalists and they have never heard of her. Damn the media is a powerful God. Complete idiocracy.

Yes, I know indies don't win, yes I know she is at 1%, yes I think Gary is honest as well and Ill buy his edibles and yes I know for a fact that
Hillary is unprecedented in her corruption and now thuggery and voter fraud. Complete idiocracy and hypocrisy..

That's easy. Clinton is an
establishment insider. The media and system are now intent on placing her in power, as the piper of choice. Stein puts forth policies that are
actually aimed at many systematic problems that people are either ignorant if or people that benefit from don't want to change.

Watching all the way from Australia (can't avoid it really), I only heard once in in passing, about 2 months ago that there were others running as
well. I'd bet everything I own that 9 out of 10 non-Americans didn't realize that.

In all honesty, if Americans vote for either front runners, they deserve what they get. We had 15% of our people vote for independents and minor
parties in our federal election 4 months ago (6% percent did in the previous election). The incumbent party got back in with a majority of 1. It
should have been 50%, not 15%. Now they complain about how bad the politicians are and how bad a job the government is doing, and support for the most
prominent patriot party is up 10% in 4 months!

TL;DR of video. Sample of polls intentionally under represent Independent Voters and Over Represent Democrats (more strongly) and Republicans
(Slightly).

Also many of the polls (CNN ORC, Quinnapiac, Foxnewspolls, Reuters) simply exclude voters aged 18-49 and have biased pre-screening questions to chase
off non CIinton answers. eg. like "Knowing that Donald Trump is racist, sexist, misogynist, would you rather have CIinton or Trump as a role model as
your children" and they pump you through these types of questions before asking you who you are voting for.

And when you work backwards from these intentional and blatant skews, Jill is actually doing 4-5x better than they let on to.

Many polls don't even have Jill as an option.

Now when you factor in the media blackout (Where Donald and CIinton get 10,000x more media coverage than Jill but Jill is NOT doing 10,000 times
worse..

When you factor in the Facebook censorship, video feed slowdowns, post removals ect, that happen around Jill's support groups.

When you factor in that the MSM allowed Gary Johnson into the media 2 months before Jill, and when they finally gave her a micron of coverage, they
rushed to get former CIA McMullin 'constitutionalist' to join the race in hopes its 3 - 2 split on 'pulling votes'

When you factor in ADDITION the new amount of Independent voters since DEMEXIT after the DNC Coup.

When you factor in ADDITION the amount of voters who identify as GREENS.

Jill actually is at over 15% and qualified for the final debate. But there's no way they would give play to that.

originally posted by: Cinrad
Watching all the way from Australia (can't avoid it really), I only heard once in in passing, about 2 months ago that there were others running as
well. I'd bet everything I own that 9 out of 10 non-Americans didn't realize that.

In all honesty, if Americans vote for either front runners, they deserve what they get. We had 15% of our people vote for independents and minor
parties in our federal election 4 months ago (6% percent did in the previous election). The incumbent party got back in with a majority of 1. It
should have been 50%, not 15%. Now they complain about how bad the politicians are and how bad a job the government is doing, and support for the most
prominent patriot party is up 10% in 4 months!

Lots of people are in the US election, all told I bet there's 40 different choices. Most of them only make it onto the ballots in a couple states
though. If you don't practically coast into ballot access in all 50 states you're not considered a strong enough candidate to be taken seriously.

More importantly, keep in mind that parties are basically voting blocks. If you're an outsider you don't come into the office with the ability to
rally any major, influential voting block behind you. Because of that, the bar is higher and you not only need good plans on what you're going to do,
but how you're going to convince Congress to go along with it. This is where Jill Stein goes off the rails. She points out the wrongs in the country
but she doesn't really propose good solutions to fix it, and when she does have a solution she can't explain how she's going to play the existing
parties off of each other in order to get her legislation through.

Honestly, I think that it's impossible for a third party candidate to run on a platform of "I will do this". I instead think the only real power
third parties have is to say "I will stop this", and do so by leveraging their power of a veto, and more importantly by stopping the overturn of their
veto through strategic concessions to each side. Essentially stopping X and leaving it to Congress to create a new plan instead.

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